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THE OPENING OF 

A NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION 

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BROTHERHOOD OF THE CHRIST LIFE 

A PROPHETIC ANNOUNCEMENT 
FROM THE SPIRIT 



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BROTHERHOOD OF THE CHRIST LIFE 

A PROPHETIC ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE SPIRIT 

BY 
DR. JOHN HAMLIN DEWEY 

AUTHOR OF 

"THE WAY, TRUTH AND LIFE." "pathway OF THE SPIRIT," "the 

OPEN DOOR, OR THE SECRET OF JESUS, 1 ' " THE DAWNING DAY," 

" THE GENESIS AND EXODUS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT," " THE 

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And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all 
with one accord in one place. 

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, 
mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak 
with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. — Acts, 2: 1,2, 4. 



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THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

BASED 

V Upon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ 
Himself being the Chief Corner Stone." 

The distinct object of this school is to re-open 
to the world the Christ and Apostolic Life of di- 
vine illumination and mastery, and make good the 
Master's promise that his true followers every- 
where should live the life and do the works he did, 
and even greater. 

Specifically, it is to teach and practically apply 
the Master's Perfect Way of immediate spiritual 
emancipation and enlightenment, the full secret of 
which has been lost to the world since Apostolic 
times, save to a few misunderstood and persecuted 
Mystics, who alone have known its power and 
been its true conservators through the succeeding 
centuries. 

The completeness of the regeneration and il- 
lumination which this way of the Christ secures, 
breaks at once and forever the thraldom and lim- 
itation of the sense life and consciousness, by the 



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immediate opening of the spiritual vision and the 
awakening of the higher spiritual consciousness, 
which brings to realization in personal experience 
the deific nature and supremacy of being as the 
child of God. The secret of this immediate real- 
ization is the one pearl of great price, which to pos- 
sess is to possess all things. 

Because of the misunderstanding and persecution, 
these Mystics privately held this mighty secret, pa- 
tiently and hopefully waiting the full time of the 
world's receptivity, when its reopening should usher 
in the second coming of the Christ, not this time 
in corporeal embodiment to sit upon an earthly 
throne, but by the enthronement of the Christ-life 
in universal experience, uniting earth with heaven 
in a blended life of conscious communion and fel- 
lowship. 

That wondrous time is now upon us and its in- 
spired evangels are already called to herald the 
dawn of the glad new day. All departments of 
active life, political, social and religious, uncon- 
sciously conspire to prepare the way. 

The tares and wheat of traditional error and gos- 
pel truth have grown together even to the harvest. 
The messengers are now in the field " to gather 
first the tares from the wheat and bind them in 
bundles to be burned," — the work of a just and in- 
spired criticism — then to gather the wheat into the 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 5 

garner, as the true bread of life which cometh down 
from God out of heaven and giveth life — the new 
and more abundant life — to the world. 

A DIVINE PROVISION. 

The Christ and Apostolic life of divine inspira- 
tion, and spiritual mastery through it, the Christ 
himself affirmed to be the true and divinely in- 
tended life for men, and the way and means of its 
immediate universal realization opened by him was 
fully demonstrated in the Apostolic experience. 

Whatever views men may hold of the exceptional 
nature and character of the Christ, the Apostles 
were confessedly men of like passions and frailties 
with ourselves ; and what the Christ method did 
for them, it will with equal certainty do for all 
men, through the same recognition and co-opera- 
tion. 

But the Christ said of himself, " I am the way, 
the truth and the life. " " He that believeth on me 
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater 
than these shall he do, because I go unto the Fa- 
ther." If he was not the exemplar of "the way, the 
truth and the life," possible to all men and de- 
signed by the Father to be actualized, essentially, 
in the personal experience of every one, then these 
words have no meaning for us. But if he was the 
sent of God, — and " he whom God hath sent, 



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speaketh the words of God," — then these words 
were indeed spirit and life; that is, they were 
spoken in the Spirit and from the Life ; and it is 
high time the world should be awakened to the 
momentous import of their mighty promise. 

THE PRESSING NEED OF THE HOUR. 

The only solution of the stupendous problems and 
difficulties which confront our time with peculiar 
emphasis is, immediate emancipation from the 
blinding bias and perverting spirit of self, the lusts 
of the flesh, greed of possession, unholy ambition 
and the limitations and standards of the sense-life, 
out of which spring all the mistakes, failures and 
disappointments, disease, insanity, crime and every 
evil that ever has or ever can afflict our race. This 
emancipation is possible only through regeneration, 
effected by the awakening and enthronement of 
the latent spiritual and deific life, with its law of 
spontaneous love and purity, brotherhood and ser- 
vice, mastery and achievement. 

A moment's reflection on the constitution of 
man in its twofold aspect and relations, will make 
the above clearly obvious. 

The animal nature, sense-life, and law of selfism, 
which we hold in common with the animal world, 
is spontaneously active, and at first dominant in all 
men; while the inherent deific nature, spiritual life 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 7 

and law of altruism or love, which we hold in com- 
mon with the Father, is at first latent and poten- 
tial only, in both the individual and the race, (as 
the oak is potential in the acorn,) and, as yet, but 
partially awakened and active in the most ad- 
vanced. 

The complete coming forth and enthronement 
of this higher nature in the organic and personal 
life, will bring the animal nature and self-seeking 
spirit into absolute subjection, and transmute all 
the organic conditions of soul and body into con- 
formity and identification with the deific nature 
and its higher spiritual life, which thus comes to 
full organic embodiment and expression in the 
flesh, as prefigured in the coming forth of the oak 
from the acorn. This is the regeneration and 
spiritual birth referred to by the Master, without 
which, he affirmed, no man can see or enter into 
the kingdom of God. By the kingdom of God, 
was meant this realization in personal experience. 

BIRTH AND RE-BIRTH. 

" Marvel not that I said unto you ye must be 
born again." Born of the flesh under the animal 
law of generation, we must be re-born, of the Spirit, 
under its law of re-generation before we can realize 
the freedom and supremacy of the spiritual nature 
in and over the organic and personal life. "That 



8 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which 
is born of the Spirit is spirit." 

To effect this result in immediate experience, a 
purely deific influence or active energy of the spir- 
itual life from above and beyond the soul, acting 
interiorly upon its latent spiritual nature, is an 
obvious necessity ; just as the quickening energy 
from the sun is needed for the germination and 
birth of the oak from the acorn.* That such an 
agent exists for this purpose, called in the New 
Testament the Holy Ghost, and that under cer- 
tain specific conditions it is available to all men, 
was demonstrated in the Apostolic experience. 

THE HOLY GHOST. 

The Holy Ghost is that specific influence or liv- 
ing spiritual energy which radiates directly and only 
from the active center and plane of realized deific 
being, and appeals to and acts upon the deific or 
spiritual nature in man, awakening it when latent 
and potential, and intensifying and augmenting 
it when active. The secret of its concentrated 
action and immediate marvelous result in that 
Avonderful experience at Pentecost, lay in the 
mental attitude of the waiting disciples toward 
their ascended Master and his all-potent impersonal 

* See Regeneration^ Inner Light Series, No. 2. 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 9 

spiritual ministry from the inner and higher world 
through this power.* 

It is a significant fact, that while the avowed 
work of the Christ was to "baptize" his followers 
" with the Holy Ghost and with fire," he did not 
begin that work, even with his first disciples, until 
after his ascension, where, in a strictly impersonal 
position and relation, he should be of equal access 
to all men. "For the Holy Ghost was not yet 
given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified." 
This glorification was realized in his victory over 
death, and final resurrection out of all earthly con- 
ditions, through a triumphant translation and en- 
thronement in the purely deific life of the Father, 
and an absolutely impersonal spiritual ministry to 
men. 

THE PERPETUAL CHRIST MINISTRY. 

To have any adequate conception or true under- 
standing of this sublime reality, we must remem- 
ber that the inner and indestructible soul-world, in 
which all who have ever lived on earth are still 
living and active, is as near and as vitally related to 
this world, as are our souls to our bodies ; and that 
we in turn, by virtue of our indestructible inner 
soul-organism or spiritual body, hold practically 
the same organic relation to that inner and higher 

* See Signs Which Folloiv, Inner Light Series, No. 5. 



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world that we do to the outward world through 
the physical body. Hence, also, whether recog- 
nized or not, the sub-conscious life is in as vital 
touch with the active influences of the inner world, 
as is the conscious life with the outer world ; so 
that our mental and moral states are influenced for 
good or ill by the one, as truly as are our physical 
conditions by the other. 

The inner soul organism also has its higher 
psychic and spiritual senses, which correspond with, 
while they vastly transcend those of the physical 
body. The psychic sense forms the medium of 
personal communication between souls in that high- 
er world, while the higher spiritual sense opens to 
impersonal communion and fellowship with the 
inmost and deific sphere of the divine and heav- 
enly. 

As these inner and higher senses are organic func- 
tions of the soul, the same in the body as out, their 
present awakening and activity will bring the same 
experience while in the body. We shall then not 
only realize and enjoy conscious communion and 
fellowship with the Father and the beatific life of 
heaven — the central deific or Christ sphere — while 
yet on earth, but also hold free intercourse — with- 
out mediumship — with the departed in all spheres, 
and with each other independent of the physical 
senses, regardless of distance. 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. n 

■-■ This vital inter-relationship and inter-acting in- 
fluence between the two worlds, was practically 
demonstrated in the Christ life, and subsequently 
by that vital reunion and conscious fellowship of 
the Apostles with their departed and ascended 
Master, and his direct spiritual ministry to them 
at and after Pentecost. Abundant confirmation of 
this vital truth is found, also, in the accordant ex- 
perience and testimony of the seers and prophets 
of all time. 

THE MANY MANSIONS. 

That inner world and permanent home of all 
earth's departed, is the Father's house of many 
mansions, or gradations of states and spheres of 
being, embracing the darkened and depraved, as 
well as the more exalted and pure. But as laying off 
the physical body does not change the character or 
moral status of the man, each in that world inev- 
itably gravitates to his own appropriate sphere — the 
society and fellowship of his own kind. The sep- 
aration of the sheep from the goats is by no arbi- 
trary flat, but by the spontaneous operation of the 
just and beneficent law of the fitness of things. 

From these active centers of darkened and per- 
verted life in the soul world, as well as from the 
higher centers of the pure and good, continually 
proceed corresponding radiations of a silent, oc- 



12 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

cult influence, to which all of like tendency and 
desire in the body, most readily respond. 

It will thus be seen that each soul, whether con- 
sciously or unconsciously, opens itself to the active 
vibrations or influence proceeding from that specific 
center and sphere of life in the soul world, which 
corresponds with its own dominant mental states 
and desires, by which these become intensified and 
confirmed. This is the law of inter-soul relation- 
ship and influence on the psychic plane. Hence, 
by the ability we have to determine w/iat our dom- 
inant mental states and desires shall be, it is in our 
power, through an understanding and intelligent 
application of this law, to close ourselves against, 
and open ourselves to any sphere of life and influ- 
ence in that world that we choose.* 

TRANSFERENCE OF STATES. 

The fact of the transfer of mental and spiritual 
states, and the law of this transference, by which 
the active states of one soul awaken, by vibration, 
their correspondence in other souls who become 
sympathetic and receptive thereto, is now begin- 
ning to be quite generally recognized and measur- 
ably understood. This applies to the relationship 
between those in the two worlds, as truly as be- 
tween those who are in this world. 

* See Seer and Master, Inner Light Series, No. 3. 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 13 

Remember that the inner and outer worlds are 
in vital touch, and that there is no separation be- 
tween kindred souls by death, except to the con- 
sciousness of those whose thoughts and desires are 
submerged in self and sense. The awakening of 
the Christ life emancipates the soul and lifts it at 
once out of these limitations, by opening its vis- 
ion and consciousness to all the higher planes of 
its relationship. 

Now, while in that world there are infinite gra- 
dations of states and planes of existence, from earth- 
bound spirits up, (all under the law of evolution,) 
there is, O blessed truth ! within, above and em- 
bracing all, a central deific sphere of unutterable 
perfection, beauty and splendor, where, in deific 
freedom and power, and in ineffable joy and glad- 
ness, are gathered the vast and mighty hosts of the 
arisen, regenerate and glorified humanity, at the 
head and center of which is the Mighty One, the 
conqueror of death and hell, the Christ of God and 
Elder Brother of his race. These exalted beings, 
"spirits of just men made perfect," the true 1 11 11- 
minati, Masters all, Sons of God and Brothers of 
Christ, are one with him, and go forth in his name 
in a divinely organized and unceasing ministry of 
love and redemptive service to their race, both in 
and out of the body. Under this law of inter-soul 
communion and transference of mental and spir- 



i 4 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

itual states, all who really desire to live the life, 
may thus spiritually open themselves to and be- 
come consciously united, while in the body, with 
that Christ center and sphere of realized deific 
being, by which the most exalted states of that 
heavenly life will be translated into earthly expe- 
rience, and society on earth be made one with that 
of heaven. Such, like the Apostles of old, will be- 
come identified with the active ministry of heaven, 
to men, and made living witnesses of the Christ 
life and power, because the full inspiration and 
power of that life and ministry will rest upon them 
and be expressed in and through them. 

HOW EFFECTED. 

This awakening in the soul, on earth, of those 
states of consciousness and realization of power 
active at that deific center and Christ plane of be- 
atific being and loving service, is effected by the 
specific influence or vibrations of the free spiritual 
energy, perpetually radiating and descending there- 
from, and penetrating all who truly open them- 
selves to it, which constitutes the baptism of the 
Holy Ghost. 

These vibrating waves of spiritual energy, as the 
radiant force of a higher organic life proceeding 
from that supreme center of realized being, neces- 
sarily transmit the love and sympathy, wisdom and 



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power of highest heaven, into the life of all who re- 
ceive its holy baptism. All may have this bap- 
tism, by opening themselves to it through supreme 
desire to be in conscious oneness with the life from 
which it proceeds. No one, however, really opens 
himself to that holy spiritual influence and its trans- 
forming power, who does not desire above all else 
to be one with the life of heaven and governed abso- 
lutely by its law. The life and law of brotherhood 
and service, seeks not to be ministered unto but to 
minister and to give its own life and service for the 
advancement of others, and to find its own good in 
such advancement. Neither can one be an effectual 
helper, or open the way to others, who is not him- 
self in the way, and governed by this law ; who has 
not had the baptism of the Holy Ghost and is not 
under its inspiration and power. 

NOT A DIVINE PERSON. 

The Holy Ghost of the New Testament prom- 
ise, and of the Pentecostal experience, was noth- 
ing but this direct impersonal influence and living 
energy radiating from the active sphere and deific 
plane of the Christ life and ministry, focussed and 
concentrated upon the waiting disciples at that time, 
by their united intensity of desire for spiritual re- 
union and conscious fellowship with their ascended 
and still living Master. That this was true, is clearly 



16 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

seen by its operation at Pentecost, and Peter's ex- 
planation of it in Acts, 2:16, 17, 32, 33. We are 
not baptized into a person, nor can a person be 
poured out upon all flesh, nor shed forth on a few 
at the hands of another person, as by the ascended 
Christ at Pentecost, nor be imparted by the laying 
on of hands, as by the Apostles, after Pentecost. 
Acts 8:17, 18; Eph. 2:6. 

After that full baptism and complete union with 
the Christ heaven, the power of the Holy Ghost 
remained with them, by which they were enabled 
to instantaneously heal all manner of sickness and 
disease, and even impart the Holy Ghost by the 
laying on of hands; and thus effect the immediate 
opening of the higher planes of consciousness in 
others, and bring into activity their true spiritual 
gifts. This Apostolic experience is a complete ob- 
ject lesson and perfect example for all who have 
eyes to see. 

A NEW AND HIGHER CYCLE OF LIFE OPENED 

TO MEN. 

The thought of a new and higher order of or- 
ganic life, to be opened and brought to fruition in 
the universal experience of the race, by the awak- 
ening and enthronement of the latent deific nature 
under the higher spiritual ministry of the Christ 
from heaven, has not been grasped nor taught 



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by any church called Christian, since Apostolic 
days. 

The early fathers, biased by the supposition that 
the Christ and Apostolic experience was necessarily 
miraculous and exceptional, could not see, as the 
Master taught, that it was but the normal and 
legitimate result of the awakening and enthrone- 
ment of the deific nature, through a quickening 
touch of a higher spiritual life and power, free to 
all who recognize and seek it, and that this deific 
nature and possibility is inherent in all men. 

So the Christ ideal of a perfect life of divine illu- 
mination and mastery, as possible of realization by 
ail men here and now, has never dominated the 
minds of any considerable body of seekers after 
the spiritual life. This accounts for the meager, 
partial and fragmentary results in practical experi- 
ence. No man, under the best conditions, will rise 
above the level of his own ideal. "According to 
thy faith it shall be done unto thee," is the law of 
the higher realization. 

Nevertheless, the new and higher deific life was 
opened and first brought to complete organic em- 
bodiment and expression in the experience of 
Jesus, which made him the Christ, and, after his 
translation and enthronement in the impersonal 
life of the Spirit, he became the supreme center of 
its mediation to his race. From the hour of his 



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apotheosis, the active influence radiating from his 
center of conscious deific being as a brother of men, 
has continuously permeated the life of his race. 
This, together with the ideal excellence planted in 
the thought of the world by the story of his life, 
became the leaven which, under the sleepless and 
unceasing ministry of heaven in his name, has 
marvelously quickened and spiritually exalted the 
race life, and is destined to leaven the entire 
body. 

The Master's own prophetic parable of the leaven 
which " a woman took and hid in three measures 
of meal, till the whole was leavened," is being lit- 
erally fulfilled. The three measures of meal typify 
the threefold nature of man — religious, intellectual 
and social. The first effect of the Christ leaven, 
under the truly inspired Apostolic ministry and 
that which followed, though less inspired, was a 
widespread quickening of the religious life of man, 
in a Renaissance of faith. The general carnality 
and spiritual blindness of that time, however, pre- 
vented a full intellectual enlightenment, and the 
result was, largely, a blind faith, with a fanatical 
zeal and missionary spirit which culminated in a 
permanent proselyting propaganda of superstitious 
beliefs in the name of Christ, but based upon an 
entire misapprehension of his original gospel. 

Thus was planted and extended the historic 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 19 

church with its sacerdotal orders, ecclesiastical au- 
thority and dogmatic theology, which by the six- 
teenth century had brought all Europe under its 
despotic sway. Then followed, as a reaction from 
the dogmatic oppression of superstitious beliefs, a 
quickening of the intellectual life in a Renais- 
sance of an awakened and emancipated mentality, 
which gave birth to our modern world of inven- 
tion, reformation, and scientific research and dis- 
covery, resulting in a universal intellectual activity 
and enlightenment. From this has come, in turn, 
in our time, a quickening of the social life in a 
final Renaissance of social regeneration and recon- 
struction on the basis of a divine compassion and 
distributive justice, which, in good time, will sure- 
ly bring the kingdom of God and the doing of His 
will in human life and society on earth as it is in 
heaven. The living, perpetual inspiration of the 
ceaseless Christ ministry is in and behind it all. 
We are truly in the birth-pangs of this last Re- 
naissance, which will bring to fruition the complet- 
ing work of the Christ leaven in the regeneration 
of the race life. 

As the awakened intellectual activity of the six- 
teenth century emancipated the mind and broke the 
power of superstition, and brought the world to 
the final sifting time of separating truth from error 
which is now upon us, so will the present awakened 



20 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

social life break the power of usurpation and des- 
potic tyranny, and emancipate from every form of 
monopoly, robbery, violence and oppression, and 
the law of heaven become the law of earth by the 
enthronement of the Christ life in universal expe- 
rience. 

SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 

Let all who can read the signs of the times, and 
can see the fatal mistake of the church fathers, and 
the utter insufficiency of the church scheme and its 
theologic method for bringing the realization of 
the Christ promise, turn to the study and applica- 
tion of the one supreme and perfect object lesson 
of history, in the Apostolic experience. 

A full return to the Master's Perfect Way, and 
the divine potency of his living and direct spirit- 
ual ministry from the inner world, at this time, will 
open to our age a new Pentecost, and a new Apos- 
tolic ministry, mightier in spiritual revelation and 
power than that which was opened at Jerusalem, 
sublime as that was. 

The same divine purpose, superintending provi- 
dence and living perpetual ministry of heaven 
which, led by the great Captain, opened and sus- 
tained the primitive Apostolic ministry, through 
the perfect co-operation of the Apostles, has never 
turned from that purpose, nor ceased from that 
blessed ministry to men. And while there have 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 21 

been but partial reproductions of the Apostolic 
baptism of the Spirit and its power in any subse- 
quent age of the Christian church, because of its 
departure from the true Apostolic attitude and ex- 
ample, the constant influence of that ever vigilant 
and ceaseless ministry has, like the leaven hidden 
but working in the three measures of meal, quick- 
ened and advanced the spiritual but yet largely 
subconscious life of the race, and made the devel- 
opment of our modern world not only possible, 
but inevitable. 

WILL SHOW YOU THINGS TO COME. 

This inner, spiritual Christ leaven and ministry, 
has brought the world, in spite of the surface ap- 
pearance to the contrary, very near to the con- 
scious awakening and resurrection of its spiritual 
life in vast numbers of men, through the reactive 
influence of which, on the masses, there will be a 
universal opening of the inner vision to the soul 
world. This will be the great unveiling of the 
moral states and secret life of men, both in the 
body and the spheres beyond, to which Scripture 
prophecy has so long pointed as the resurrection 
(uncovering) day and general judgment. This is 
to be the revealing time to which the Master pro- 
phetically referred as his second coming "in the 
clouds of heaven with power and great glory and 



22 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

the holy angels with him." The clouds of heaven, 
in the spiritual sense, are the mists and fogs of the 
sense life, and are the only barriers to the vision 
of the inner world, which in the true spiritual life 
in the body should and will be as normally open 
and clear, as is the external vision of the outer 
world. 

The power and glory of the active presence of 
the Christ and the angels of God — the mighty 
Brotherhood of Masters which attend him — will 
speedily disperse this blinding mist of sense, and 
all eyes shall see the radiant glory of the shining 
host, as well as the moral darkness of those who 
have not yet sought the " washing of regeneration 
and renewing of the Holy Ghost." 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is com- 
ing, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice 
of the Son of God : and they that hear shall live. 
For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he 
given to the Son to have life in himself : And hath 
given him authority to execute judgment also ; 
because he is the Son of man. Marvel not at this : 
for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in 
the graves shall hear his voice and shall come 
forth : they that have done good, unto the resur- 
rection (unveiling) of life : and they that have 
done evil unto the resurrection (unveiling) of con- 
demnation." Jno. 5:25-29. 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 23 

The time is at hand and the new School of 
Apostolic Inspiration is needed on the earthly 
side for the re-opening and descent of the heavens 
in the new and mightier Pentecost which is to 
usher in the long looked for day of universal 
emancipation, enlightenment, and brotherhood. 

From this Pentecostal baptism will come forth 
the New Age Apostles endowed with the invinci- 
ble power of a Christ illumined ministry, to estab- 
lish a working brotherhood of the Christ life, which 
will speedily draw all men into its glad and bless- 
ed fellowship. As this ministry will go forth in 
the name and spirit of the great Captain who 
" came not to be ministered unto but to minister," 
and establish a universal brotherhood of the im- 
personal life, it can have no personal leadership 
nor priestly orders. The spirit which seeks per- 
sonal exaltation, leadership and oracular authority 
is anti-christ. 

"Call no man your father upon the earth; for 
one is your Father which is in heaven. Neither 
be ye called masters : for one is your Master even 
Christ, and all ye are brethren. But he that is 
greatest among you shall be your servant. And 
whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased : and 
he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Matt. 
23:7-12. 

The work of the new Apostolic ministry wili be, 



24 THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 

first : to fearlessly proclaim the Christ promise of 
immediate spiritual emancipation and deific mas- 
tery of being to all who fully recognize and co- 
operate with the living ministry of heaven. Sec- 
ond : to teach the law and conditions of this 
co-operation and immediate realization, and there- 
by awaken the requisite faith and desire. 

The capacity for this co-operation and for the 
realization it secures is inherent, but the awaken- 
ing of a vital faith and supreme desire is necessary 
to secure the perfect and effectual co-operation. 
To do this is the specific work of the true Apos- 
tolic preacher and teacher. In order to awaken 
this faith and desire in others, the Apostle must 
himself be the living demonstration or example of 
the gospel he proclaims. 

The grain of wheat encased in an Egyptian 
mummy remains, it is said, unchanged for centu- 
ries, while holding latent and potential its inherent 
capacity for giving birth to a new and productive 
stalk of wheat ; but taken from that environment 
and planted in the earth, the transformation is at 
once effected, and a new organism of unfolding 
and productive life is started on its cycle of career. 

All men, however densely encased in self and 
slavishly held to the spiritual darkness and limita- 
tions of the sense-life have, as prefigured in the 
wheat, the inherent capacity of giving birth to the 



THE NEW SCHOOL OF INSPIRATION. 25 

higher deific order of embodied life. This latent 
deific nature will be brought to birth in everyone 
who comes into true relations with the active 
Christ life in its blessed ministry; they thus become 
speedily transformed and lifted into conscious fel- 
lowship with the royal order of the Sons of God 
and Brothers of Christ. To secure this result is 
the sublime aim and specific work of the New 
School of Apostolic Inspiration.* 

The coming Pentecost and Apostolic ministry 
which is to usher in the true spiritual era of uni- 
versal emancipation, cleansing and enlightenment, 
opening earth to heaven and bringing the per- 
manent descent of heaven to earth, will be char- 
acterized by an awakening power, healing energy 
and contagion of love and brotherhood, that can- 
not be resisted and will not be quenched till vic- 
tory is won, and "God's saving health is known 
among all nations " : for "nations shall be born in 
a day": He hath seen the travail of his soul and 
shall be satisfied. 

* This school is now open at 1 1 7 West 84th Street, New York 
City. See Appendix. 



APPENDIX. 

A PROPHETIC vision of the School of Inspiration an- 
nounced in the preceding pages was opened to the writer 
in 1875 ; but in seeking to enlist interest and co-operation, 
it was found that the various forms of educational and tra- 
ditional bias, at that time prevented the grasping of the 
ideal presented and the real nature of the method of reali- 
zation it involved. 

The propaganda of the various new cults with which our 
age is rife, has, however, greatly helped to break the power 
of tradition, and, in some degree, open the mind of our 
age to the stupendous possibilities of the human soul even 
in its earthly embodiment, as taught by the Christ and 
demonstrated in his own experience, and to a marvelous 
degree by his immediate followers. 

Our own books were written to help on and prepare the 
way for the final, complete reproduction of the Christ and 
Apostolic Ideal, Method, Inspiration and Experience. 
Three times has this prophetic vision of the school and its 
specific work been given, and each time with deeper in- 
tensity of light and assuring impressiveness. So in each 
succeeding book we have sought to make more clear and 
impressive this immediate, sublime possibility to the awak- 
ened, seeking, yearning mind of our restless age. 

The Inner Light Series and the companion pamphlets 
were especially written to prepare the way for the imme- 
diate opening of this School of Inspiration and its Pente- 
costal method. 

For several years, also, class lectures have been given 



APPENDIX. 27 

and Groups formed to bring more especially and practically 
into the mind and thought of our age the true Christ and 
Apostolic ideal and method, and thus prepare the way for 
their final complete acceptance and results which none of 
the cults above -referred to have accomplished. 

The recent interior revelation and experience above re- 
ferred to, have made clear and emphatic the specific con- 
ditions involved in the complete reproduction of the Pen- 
tecostal method under the changed conditions of our 
modern life, and that the time is ripe for the full opening 
of the work. It was this which prompted the writing of 
this booklet as an announcement and introduction to it. 

As suggested in footnote on preceding page, the school 
is now open for class and private instruction under Dr. 
Dewey's personal direction, at 117 West 84th Street, New 
York City. 

The school has two departments, preparatory and ex- 
perimental. The first is needed to secure the proper atti- 
tude of mind and will for the Pentecostal experience of the 
higher Group service. The second (Group service) inducts 
the student, through interior exercises, into those conditions 
which secure the baptism of the Holy Ghost with its per- 
manent inspiration and Gifts of the Spirit. This effects 
the normal opening of the inner and higher planes of con- 
sciousness, brings the seeker into direct communion and 
fellowship with the mighty Brotherhood of the Christ life 
and endues him with its power <sf Apostolic ministry and 
service. 

CORRESPONDENCE TEACHING. 

Next to the help of personal association, is personal 
communication and instruction by correspondence. For 
the benefit of those who cannot visit him personally, Dr. 



28 APPENDIX. 

Dewey has, from a very large correspondence of this 
character, condensed and arranged a thorough course of 
Lesson Lectures, which he has named : 

THE SEVEN STEPS OF MYSTIC SCIENCE. 

These lessons are made extremely practical by the per- 
sonal element entering into their preparation, based as 
they are upon actual correspondence with a large circle 
of students, and answering the representative questions of 
all classes. 

Accompanying these Correspondence Lessons is a spe- 
cially prepared volume entitled 

THE MYSTIC KEY, 

giving a lucid exposition of the higher soul-powers of 
Seership and Occult Mastery, and of the laws and princi- 
ples involved in their normal development and exercise, 
with a practical application of the same to immediate 
realization. To this is added an Appendix of ioo pages, 
containing a condensed presentation of the specific teaching 
and experiences of some of the great representative Mys- 
tics, ancient and modern, with their "science of contem- 
plation" and " attainment of the Beatific vision, 1 ' etc., the 
cream of a whole library of Mystic and Occult lore, worth, 
in itself, to the earnest seeker, many times the price of the 
book and lessons. 

Students taking the course are brought into direct spir- 
itual relations with the author, and receive with The 
Mystic Key and lessons, special instruction for the study. 
Price for the course, $15.00. For special questions concern- 
ing the lessons, address, with stamp, the Secretary, 

E. L. C. Dewey, 117 West 84th Street, New York. 



APPENDIX. 



2 9 



APPRECIATIVE WORDS OF STUDENTS. 

Accept this letter in love and great appreciation of the 
Lessons and Mystic Key received some time since. I 
have and do now study them with an earnest and grateful 
heart ; have many times over and over offered my most 
humble thanks to our Father in heaven for his revelation of 
himself through you to us. If human language could con- 
vey my full appreciation of the measureless living truths I 
would endeavor to convey the same in this letter to you, 
but it is impossible. Mrs. J. M. W. 

Snyder, Tex. 

It would be impossible to tell you how much satisfaction 
I am getting out of these lessons. I wrote you that I have 
not much time for study ; still there are lovely woods where 
I can steal away and be all alone at times. Last summer I 
had " The Pathway of the Spirit" and " The Open Door " 
for my constant companions. Those with the other books 
of Dr. Dewey's that I have read have been a grand prepa- 
ration for these lessons. ... 

The great charm to me in Dr. Dewey's writings, is that 
he makes the unfolding of the spiritual life such a normal, 
natural thing, and all based upon the teaching of Christ. 

Mrs. S. L. P. 

Rochester, N. Y. 

The Lessons are so plain, so clear, so beautifully ar- 
ranged and seem well adapted to my individual need. I 
fully accept the fundamental statements as to the basis of 
interpretation, and my love for the study is greater day by 
day. Dr. A. D. F. 

San Francisco, Cal. 



THE NEW TESTAMENT OCCULTISM 

BY J. H. DEWEY, M. D. 



11 Behold, I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, 
and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any 
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The above promise, which through the centuries 
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The ceaseless questionings as to the acceptance of 
one promise and the rejection of another, together 
with the indiscriminate confounding of the psychic 
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The contrasting features of the Eastern Occult- 
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